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tivoli enterprise console replacement

  • 1.  tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 09:46 AM

    hi,

    i was an Tivoli expert 12 years ago. specially in Tivoli enterprise console. id like to know how TEC has been replaced.

    I don't understand; it it JBoss or NetcoolOnibus?

    Thanks



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 2.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 10:11 AM

    Hey THierry,

    TEC was wonderful in its day. It was replaced with Netcool OMNIbus/Impact which is still very much alive and supporting the major banks/telco's around the world under the name of Netcool Operations Insight. (NOI)

    A number of years ago we containerised much of NOI so customers could use Linux or OpenShift as desired.

    Today you can purchase NOI or better still the IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (which has NOI and much more) in a flexible offering which also comes with the needed OpenShift and Topology functions which are core for event/metric and logging.




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    Angus Jamieson
    IT Service Management Solutions Architect
    IBM
    Edinburgh
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  • 3.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 10:18 AM

    Thanks for your reactivity.

    It is possible to plug NOI on Zabbix 6.4 (linux software system and network administration product)

    Regards



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 4.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 11:15 AM

    In short yes...

    I also found this interesting presentation for you...

    https://assets.zabbix.com/files/zabbix_summit_2019/Wolfgang_Alper-The_Clever_and_the_Cool_Zabbix_meets_IBM_NetCool.pdf

    12:40

    The Clever and the Cool – Zabbix meets IBM NetCool

    Ever wanted to integrate Zabbix in your ticket system? Well, this talk is exactly about this topic, in a very different way. It shows how the "Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH" integrated lots of Zabbix-Server instances into their existing IBM NetCool ticket system to reuse the entire existing infrastructure and attached business processes to work with alerts created by Zabbix.

    Wolfgang Alper
    Wolfgang Alper

    CEO, Intellitrend, Germany

    Wolfgang Alper is the CEO of IntelliTrend GmbH, a german IT-Service company specialized in network infrastructure, virtualization and network monitoring. With IntelliTrend GmbH, he had the idea that not only big companies like carriers would need a monitoring of their IT-Infrastucture, but also the smaller ones. So in 2004, he started implementing Zabbix in enterprise environments and has not regretted this decison once. As a Zabbix certified trainer, Wolfgang is specialised in large scale deployments of Zabbix.


    Zabbix integration with the message bus probe

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    Zabbix integration with the message bus probe
    Is there a Zabbix integration with the message bus probe?
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    Configuring Zabbix as an event source

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    Configuring Zabbix as an event source
    You can set up an integration with Netcool Operations Insight to receive notifications created by Zabbix. Zabbix is an open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring.
    View this on Ibm >






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    Angus Jamieson
    IT Service Management Solutions Architect
    IBM
    Edinburgh
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  • 5.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 12:16 PM

    Thanks Angus

    would it be possible to have a free access to NOI for testing ?

    Regards



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 6.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 12:31 PM
    Yes. Just register as an IBM business partner and you'll have access to all of the software. The lowest tier is "Registered". I think it's now free.

    Frank

    Frank Tate
    MBA, PMP, CISSP







  • 7.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Tue August 01, 2023 10:19 AM

    Welcome back, Thierry!

    For on-prem, the replacement is OMNIbus plus Impact. OMNIbus consists of the ObjectServer (the SQL-based event repository with triggers that can do simple correlations), probes (event receivers and "pullers", depending on the probe), and gateways (used primarily to send event information to some other system, like Remedy, for example). Impact runs in a JVM and is the high-powered event enrichment and correlation engine. Its big function is the ability to access any number of external data sources (whereas OMNIbus can generally only access its own database and local files).

    As you can imagine, the actual structure is completely different from TEC, though the concepts of "event correlation and enrichment" are similar.

    One catch is that neither of these products are purchasable individually. They are bundled with the Netcool Operations Insight package.

    There are lots of other details, but that is the basic answer.



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    Frank Tate
    Gulfsoft Consulting
    https://www.gulfsoft.com
    AIOps Experts. Contact us for implementation help.
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  • 8.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 03:44 AM
    Edited by thierry granier Thu August 03, 2023 04:48 AM

    Hi Frank,

    y purpose is to get all Zabbix events and to use the correlation engine of NOI on these events.

    Is it possible?

    Zabbix event ---->  correlation engine   --->  Netcool console OR Zabbix Console

    Regards

    Thierry 



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 9.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 06:06 AM
    Yes. I would send the Zabbix alert out using a script: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/config/notifications/media/script . To receive that in Netcool, you would need to configure the Probe for Message Bus, which can be configured as an HTTP/S receiver. That would receive the alert and insert it as an event into the ObjectServer, at which point it would be visible in the Netcool console. The console can be the fat client or JazzSM/DASH, which is a part of solution that provides web-based access to the Netcool console.

    Frank Tate
    MBA, PMP, CISSP





  • 10.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 07:34 AM

    Hi, Franck,

    thanks a lot for your help.  I can't download NOI .

    I ask you again your help. 

    Best regards



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 11.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 07:39 AM
    I assume you have Zabbix installed. What Netcool components do you have installed and/or have access to install?

    Frank

    Frank Tate
    MBA, PMP, CISSP
    CEO, Gulfsoft Consulting
    Frank.Tate@gulfsoft.com
    http://www.gulfsoft.com
    ph: 304-376-6183





  • 12.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 08:01 AM

    i have Zabbix server installed and 3 computers with the Zabbix agent but that's all.

    i have no Netcool product installed and i don't have any access to install any.

    here are my personnal data  :https://www-112.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/homepage/paocustomer

    thanks



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 13.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 08:09 AM
    Hi Thierry,

    I can't give you the software, and the only way I know of to get it (other than buying a license as a customer) is through IBM's Partner Plus program. If you're working for a client, they should have the software installed or at least have access to it. 

    Why do you need the Netcool software? Are you working on something for a client or a POC that requires it? If so, the customer could give you access to the software, since this would (in my opinion) fall under a "development environment" designation, which has no additional charge for customers. If you just need some kind of event correlation engine, there's the Simple Event Correlator http://simple-evcorr.github.io/ that you could download and use.

    I'm not sure what that link is - it just takes me to my company profile on IBM.

    Frank
    Frank Tate
    MBA, PMP, CISSP





  • 14.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 09:47 AM

    Hi Franck,

    a customer asked me to study a tool to delete, modify, etc... Zabbix events because they are too much and nothing is readeble. I thought immediatly to Tivoli and the TEC. the customer has no access to IBM World.

    Regards

    Thierryt



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 15.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 03:18 PM
    Ah. Now I understand. 

    Here are my thoughts. YMMV:

    The approach I would take is to first look at the Zabbix integrations with alerting and notification systems here https://www.zabbix.com/integrations?cat=notifications_alerting . I would then look at the customer's environment to see if they already own a tool that's listed there or one that could do what they want. Something like MS Power BI might actually do what they need, for example. Or maybe they already own ServiceNow or some other product with event management capabilities. If you're certain they don't already own such a tool, I would look in that list for any free/OSS tools, or ones with free trials to give them a try.

    From your experience with IBM's current offering, I think it would be a very long path to get to a working demo with the Netcool products.

    Frank

    Frank

    Frank Tate
    MBA, PMP, CISSP
    CEO, Gulfsoft Consulting
    Frank.Tate@gulfsoft.com
    http://www.gulfsoft.com
    ph: 304-376-6183






  • 16.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Fri August 04, 2023 06:14 AM
    Hi, Franck,

    i'm going to follow your advice and examine MS Power BI and look after other product with event management capabilities.
    I'll tell you my conclusion.

    I have another question  :  is it possible with node.js to build a little event and correlation engine?
    Regards

    T Granier





  • 17.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Fri August 04, 2023 07:41 AM
    Yes, you can write anything in NodeJS.

    Good luck.

    Frank

    Frank Tate
    MBA, PMP, CISSP
    CEO, Gulfsoft Consulting
    Frank.Tate@gulfsoft.com
    http://www.gulfsoft.com
    ph: 304-376-6183





  • 18.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 07:45 AM

    hi Franck,

    i understand ; but what about the correlation?  what's  the engine?  i don't find any documentation on correlation in NOI.    

    i can't download the software NOI. I really need your help*

    Thanks a lot

    Best regards

    Thierry 



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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  • 19.  RE: tivoli enterprise console replacement

    Posted Thu August 03, 2023 03:57 AM

    I'm sorry Franck but i don't know how to register as Business Partner. I'm a freelance consultant so i don't have any company name neither web site or fiscal identification.

    Thanks for your help.

    Thierry



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    thierry granier
    international consultant
    Independant consultant
    +33685553489
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